A Newspaperman’s Nostalgia

A memory from my first journalism job: I was a 22-year-old cub reporter at The Boston Globe in 1993 when The New York Times bought us for $1.1 billion. I looked around the newsroom at all the middle-aged hacks&mdash;a feature writer who crawled under her desk to call sources, a night-desk editor who cursed under his breath in German&mdash;and thought: Seriously? But I didn&rsquo;t know anything about the media business. I figured the Timesmen knew what they were doing.

They didn&rsquo;t. They sold The Globe last week for $70 million, 6 percent of what they paid two decades ago. They didn&rsquo;t even get to unload the Globe&lsquo;s pension liabilities.

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